"2 Large Sarreguemines Earthenware Plates, 19th Century"
2 large Sarreguemines earthenware plates, 19th centurySarreguemines:This is a famous French earthenware and porcelain factory, located in Sarreguemines (in Lorraine). It was active mainly in the 19th century. These figures are probably portraits of people, but rather idealized representations of historical or theatrical types—a cavalier or musketeer for the man, an aristocratic lady
U & C" for Utzschneider & Cie, which ran the factory from 1838. This mark corresponds to production from the second half of the 19th centurye woman.